Milezero
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Greetings everyone!
I'm a new Alienware owner and I've just recently received my Alienware M17x R4 from dell a few weeks back.
As I have a friends who has exactly the same specs as my Alienware except that he uses an ASUS ROG, they are able to run games at a WAY better resolution, framerate and quality than me.(Despite the exact same specs. Neither overclocked.)
So I decided to search for the issue on the net and I came upon a thread which instructed me to:
1) Switch my graphics card (fn+f7)
2) Reboot
3) Reinstall the Nvidia GTX 660M graphics card.
4. Reboot again
Upon administering said instructions, I was able to run my games on par with my friends' ASUS ROG. (Although the integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 was nowhere to be found on my Device Manager List.)
And so I wondered... is this an issue wherein the Intel HD Graphics 4000 actually takes priority over the Nvidia GTX 660M by default? Is there a fix to this wherein I could actually still be able to use the Intel HD Graphics 4000 but have the Nvidia GTX 660M as the priority graphics card?
(NOTE: Whenever I boot up my system, this error message shows up "Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered.")
I'm a new Alienware owner and I've just recently received my Alienware M17x R4 from dell a few weeks back.
As I have a friends who has exactly the same specs as my Alienware except that he uses an ASUS ROG, they are able to run games at a WAY better resolution, framerate and quality than me.(Despite the exact same specs. Neither overclocked.)
So I decided to search for the issue on the net and I came upon a thread which instructed me to:
1) Switch my graphics card (fn+f7)
2) Reboot
3) Reinstall the Nvidia GTX 660M graphics card.
4. Reboot again
Upon administering said instructions, I was able to run my games on par with my friends' ASUS ROG. (Although the integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 was nowhere to be found on my Device Manager List.)
And so I wondered... is this an issue wherein the Intel HD Graphics 4000 actually takes priority over the Nvidia GTX 660M by default? Is there a fix to this wherein I could actually still be able to use the Intel HD Graphics 4000 but have the Nvidia GTX 660M as the priority graphics card?
(NOTE: Whenever I boot up my system, this error message shows up "Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered.")